Harvest, Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems

@inproceedings{citeulike:1537253, abstract = {The cost of reconciling consistency and state management with high availability is highly magnified by the unprecedented scale and robustness requirements of today's Internet applications. We propose two strategies for improving overall availability using simple mechanisms that scale over large applications whose output behavior tolerates graceful degradation. We characterize this degradation in terms of harvest and yield, and map it directly onto engineering mechanisms that enhance...}, author = {Fox, Armando and Brewer, Eric A. }, booktitle = {Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1537253}, keywords = {reliability}, pages = {174--178}, posted-at = {2007-08-06 04:15:07}, priority = {5}, title = {Harvest, Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fox99harvest.html}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1537253 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1537253 TI - Harvest, Yield and Scalable Tolerant Systems T2 - Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems SP - 174 EP - 178 N2 - The cost of reconciling consistency and state management with high availability is highly magnified by the unprecedented scale and robustness requirements of today's Internet applications. We propose two strategies for improving overall availability using simple mechanisms that scale over large applications whose output behavior tolerates graceful degradation. We characterize this degradation in terms of harvest and yield, and map it directly onto engineering mechanisms that enhance... KW - reliability AU - Fox, Armando AU - Brewer, Eric PY - 1999/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fox99harvest.html ER -